How flexible is course selection at Brown University?

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<p>I’m currently a homeschooled senior in high school, and I’ve taken quite a few advanced undergraduate-level courses in mathematics, computer science, and physics. This leaves me with a couple of questions:</p>

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<li>If a class I want to take at Brown has prerequisites, would I be able to take a placement test or show a work sample to avoid the prerequisites?</li>
<li>If I do enroll in a class at Brown that turns out to be really easy, how flexible are the professors about providing more advanced work, allowing students to skip lectures, etc.?</li>
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<p>I’m sorry if these questions sound pretentious, but I just got finished with a mandatory, two-hour college physics lecture on mathematics that I learned in middle school, and I would really like to avoid the same problem in college. I get the feeling that the answers will be positive, though, because (1) Brown seems quite flexible and (2) Brown seems quite awesome. :)</p>

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<li>There are some classes that you can skip with AP Credit and Brown does offer placement tests in languages, chem, biology I think.</li>
<li>If a class is really easy, you can always drop it to move to a higher level class (if you meet requirements) during the first two weeks of school. Otherwise, talk to the professor. The professors here are great and will definitely guide you in exploring more material. By the way, in college, nobody cares if you go to lectures; it’s just to your benefit to do so.</li>
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